Grace Hartman (trade unionist)
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This article is about Grace Fulcher Hartman. For Grace Hartman, the social activist and politician, see Grace Hartman (politician).
Grace Hartman (1918 – December 18, 1993), née Fulcher was a Canadian labour union activist, whose 1975 election to the presidency of the Canadian Union of Public Employees made her the first woman in North America to lead a major labour union.
She was awarded the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case in 1985.[1]
[edit] References
Susan Crean (1995), Grace Hartman: A Woman for Her Time. Vancouver: New Star Books.
[edit] External links
- Grace Hartman profile at CUPE
- 1976 CBC interview with Mary Lou Finlay
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